Here are some examples of what students did, in order to “document their reading” for my Young Adult Lit course/reading project [basic task: read 15 books and somehow document your reading].
Theresa (and Monique and Webb from Block 2, fall 2008)
Monique and Webb made a Comic Life presentation to explain the Meaningful Engaged Learning Model. Instead of printing out the comic book, they put the pages into a PowerPoint to use for a group presentation and then posted that on a wiki page to make it available for the world to see.
Theresa (and Michael and Laura from Block 2, fall 2008)
Wanna address the musical intelligence? GarageBand to the rescue! This pair explained the Meaningful and Engaged Learning Model in a song. Too nervous to perform in front of your peers? The beauty of recording it ahead of time is that it's not a live performance. By posting the lyrics on the wiki, this presentation turned into a group sing-along.
This is Kaisha's "A look into the life of a child in the Great Depression" scrapbook called "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt". She used a blog and iPhoto to create the posted scrapbook in the blog.
The purpose of the wiki is basically for me to post examples of past student projects (good ones, that is), so current students can see what their projects should look like. I am not really using it for much other than that.
I was using this wiki for students to each post a list of what they planned to read - so students could see each other's proposed reading lists. I am also at the moment thinking of updating it with some links to various resources.
I started a blog, to document my own reading (a course requirement is for students to read 15 YA books and document their reading somehow. So, I am in theory also doing the project and am using a blog to document my reading.). I am also using it to post various resources related to the course - you'll see evidence of those in the sidebar.
I had hoped to create more of a "conversation" on that blog, or, perhaps, have it serve as more of a "shared/class blog" rather than an individual blog, but, have not really figured that out yet.
Rather than duplicating efforts, we collaborated and created a joint resource wiki that we can both tap into and link to our individual course wikis (for each cohort). Additionally, when we teach the course in a future semester, we won't have to duplicate the pages in the new wiki, we just link to the resource wiki.
Technology Integration
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
UMF Students
http://achyalitreviews.blogspot.com/
http://carriesyal.blogspot.com/
http://hiqsyalitreviews.blogspot.com/
http://beyondplot.blogspot.com/
Wiki: Justin Hebert
http://theheebsreads.wikispaces.com/
Podcasts: Mandy Cote
http://mcote09.podomatic.com/
http://mcote09more.podomatic.com/
Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction
Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction
UMF Faculty and Staff
I had hoped to create more of a "conversation" on that blog, or, perhaps, have it serve as more of a "shared/class blog" rather than an individual blog, but, have not really figured that out yet.